Eee PC

It seems netbooks are so common these days that even big brand stores like Marks & Spencer are starting to sell them. It’s a basic netbook with 1.6GHz Atom, 10″ screen, 1GB RAM on 160 GB HDD and the usual 802.11b/g WiFi and Windows XP. Elonex is the one making these generic spec’d devices for them. [...]

It seems like consumers aren’t quite as ready to pick up a netbook running Linux and use it happily, as one UK retailer had hoped they would be. Windows OS seems to be the OS that Carphone Warehouse customers prefer anyway. The company are recalling it’s own brand of netbooks (their ‘webbook’) from every store [...]